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Hayes Theatre Co Only Heaven Knows - photo by Robert Catto

Only Heaven Knows brings 1940s queer Sydney roaring back to life

June 7 - Music Theatre, Opinion

Only Heaven Knows, a musical about a young Melbourne man who discovers the queer delights of homosexual desire, unexpected intimacies and gender transgressions in Sydney’s Kings Cross in the 1940s, has been revived in it...

There’s something queer about Tumblr

June 1 - Opinion

Tumblr is a site that can leave many adults confused. But for more than 330 million users worldwide it is a visual medium for self-expression where anything from politics to fan groups goes. What makes Tumblr special is ...

2017 DEFGLIS Commemorative Rainbow Wreath

Honouring all our diggers: why we lay rainbow wreaths

April 24 - Opinion

On Anzac Day, Australians honour the sacrifice of all those who have served to defend the country in war and peace. It is a special day on the Australian calendar where everyone has the opportunity to honour and remember...

Mardi Gras Parade - photo by Ann-Marie Calilhanna

Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men

March 1 - Opinion

Joe Jackson’s 1982 hit Real Men was the first time I had heard gays referred to as faggots. I was just out of the closet and in my first gay relationship in London. Jackson’s lyrics about how only our friends and other g...

Felicity Huffman in Transamerica, Belladonna Productions

Transgenderism in film and literature

January 28 - Opinion

In Laurie Frankel’s new novel This is How it Always Is, an American family grapples with prejudice about transgender children. Youngest child of five boys, Claude, in addition to wanting to be “a chef, a cat, a vet, a di...

The emerging science of ‘bromosexual’ friendships

December 22 - Opinion

For a long time, friendships between gay men and straight men – what some now call “bromosexual” friendships – were uncommon. Homophobia was likely one reason; another was that straight men probably assumed they didn’t h...

The plebiscite is dead, but the quest for marriage equality lives on

November 9 - Opinion

The same-sex marriage plebiscite bill has been on life support ever since Labor announced that it would not support an expensive, non-binding national vote on whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. Last nig...

Malthouse Theatre GONZO - photo by Sarah Walker

Gonzo: we need to talk about young men and porn

September 28 - Opinion

Young men’s use of pornography has been the focus of considerable debate, if not anxiety and moral panic, in recent years. Recent incidents such as the high school ‘porn ring’ have in many respects fuelled th...

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